PULITZER PRIZE

India-born poet Vijay Seshadri has won the prestigious 2014 Pulitzer Prize in the poetry category for his collection of poems '3 Sections.'
The 98th annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music were announced on Monday by Columbia University. Seshadri's '3 Sections' is a "compelling collection of poems that...

New York: India-born poet Vijay Seshadri has won the prestigious 2014 Pulitzer Prize in the poetry category for his collection of poems "3 Sections." The 98th annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music were announced on Monday by Columbia University.
Seshadri's '3 Sections' is a "compelling collection of poems...

New York: The Guardian US and Washington Post were awarded the most prestigious Pulitzer prize on Monday for coverage of secret surveillance by the US National Security Agency that sparked wide debate over government spying.
Reuters won in international reporting for its coverage of the violent persecution of a Muslim minority...

Donald Forst, a veteran newsman who led New York Newsday and the Village Voice as they won Pulitzer Prizes and also worked at more than a dozen other newspapers, died Saturday at age 81.
He died at St. Peter's Hospital in Albany of complications of colon cancer, Forst's companion, Val Haynes,...

Indian-American Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri is among 10 novelists shortlisted for the prestigious US National Book Award 2013 in the fiction category for her new work 'The Lowland', which is a tale of two brothers set in Kolkata of the 1960s.
The National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the...

Pulitzer Prize-winner Jhumpa Lahiri and Irish novelist Colm Toibin are among six finalists for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction.
British-born Lahiri's "The Lowland" and Toibin's "The Testament of Mary" are on the shortlist announced on Tuesday for the 50,000-pound ($78,000) prize.
The other finalists are "We Need New Names" by Zimbabwe's...

Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist and writer Katherine Boo won the national book award for nonfiction for 'Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity,' which sheds light on the lives of India's poor as well as government corruption.
Author Louise Erdrich took the top fiction award for her...

New York: A story by Pulitzer Prizewinning author Jennifer Egan for the New Yorker is being serialised in 10 installments on Twitter, according to the magazine.
The New Yorker said the first installment of the story, a spy thriller called "Black Box, went out on Thursday night.
"The story is written in...

New Delhi: Born as Robert Allen Zimmerman, American musician Bob Dylan has turned 71 today. A hugely influential figure in American popular culture, Bob Dylan at times is described as one of the key people behind creating a social unrest of early 70s.
Some of his songs such as 'Blowing in...

New York: Starting this week and continuing into 2012, virtually all Michael Chabon novels, stories and other writings will become available as ebooks; news the author looks upon with pleasure and resignation.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," Chabon has been a published author...

New York: The Pulitzer Prize board is changing how news organizations can enter its competition and says all submissions must now be done online.
The board announced on Wednesday that paper submissions would no longer be accepted. Instead, a digital entry form will go through the Pulitzer website.
Paper submissions have been...

New Delhi: The latest biography on Mahatma Gandhi, 'Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his struggle with India' is not even available here yet, but Gujarat and Maharashtra are banning it. The central government is deciding not to, after some consideration.
The Pulitzer Prize winning author and former New York Times executive...